Powerful words: "It’s not the task of the church to 'Make America Great Again.' The contemporary task of the church is to make Christianity countercultural again. And once we untether Jesus from the interests of empire, we begin to see just how countercultural and radical Jesus’ ideas actually are. Enemies? Love them. Violence? Renounce it. Money? Share it. Foreigners? Welcome them. Sinners? Forgive them."
- Brian Zahnd, Postcards from Babylon: The Church In American Exile
@augieray OK, but he also expressed a particular kind of violence and held contempt for a particular kind of sinner. Namely: he violently overturned the efforts of those who would fraudulently use religious sentiment to fleece people out of hard earned money; and he seemed to have little space in his heart for forgiving those who would:
1. abuse a child.
2. accuse one of a crime one is oneself guilty of.
3. Deny aid to those in need.
I have qualms about Luke 19, but it's talking about such.
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